JEREMY’S READERS JOURNAL # 5 8/17/11
Dear Mrs. Zrihen
I currently read a non-fictional book called “I survived the shark attacks of 1916 ”by Lauren Tarshis. This is where the exposition starts. The book is about, in July 12, 1916, at Elm hills, New Jersey in the Matawan Creek, a ten-year-old boy named Chet was swimming down in the Matawan Creek by himself, but he had the feeling that someone or something was watching him, and he saw it a big gray fin right out slicing the water towards him. As he was rushing out the water the shark was right behind him. The shark was bigger than Chet himself. The next day he got a job with his grandfather at the Elm Hills Diner. That night Chets friend Oelrichs put on his bathing suit and dove right on front of the sharks. He did that to prove that sharks don’t attack. Chet tried to make new friends because his friends were immature. They were doing a prank and pretending that there was no danger in the waters. That day Chets friends invited him to go swimming in the Creek with them, but Sid, Chets friend said in order for him to pass he had to tell the friends what the pacific ocean and Mississippi River looked alike. Here is the rising action. After he jumped and played with his friends, he saw the shark come towards his friend faster and faster closer and closer, then later BAM! The climax. Chets friend dissapeared in the water, then later Chet noticed that his two last friends died too. When he came to the top of the deck he walked up to the edge and noticed that his friends were just holding him underwater to pretend that a shark ate him. This is the falling action. The next morning when Chets brought three pins with him to kill the white shark. The resolution. When his friends came to see what he was doing they saw that he was making noise that makes sharks come just as he saw one he jumped on top and stuck all three in it, one on its tongue, the other on its back, and the other on its tail, then he realized blood coming out and that he actually killed it!!! THE END
The genre: non-fiction
The topic: sharks
The main idea: about kids who go in a lake and they find a great white hark attacking them
The book is stated
Another title would be “sharks!”
3 supporting details are 1. The book took place in the waters that talked about sharks. Don’t swim in a lake alone if it has a shark 2. There were different names of rivers. 3. The shark gets killed at the end.
The book is factual
The essential message is never go to a lake with sharks
The cause is going to a lake, and the effect is dying
The problem is that when people are coming to a lake they see a shark so they have to rush out of the water in order not to get eaten
The 5 text features are: 1. Bolded and highlighted words 2. Table of contents 3. Headings 4. Titles and sub-titles 5. Maps
The pattern of organization is Chet going in a lake discovering a shark then parents moving to california then friends prank Chet about shark then Chet killing shark
The authors purpose: inform readers about a shark in a lake
The authors perspective: good
The author is objective
The significance: Chet killing the shark
The tone: loud
The mood: suspense
The characters: Chet and his friends, parents and uncle
The protagonist: Chet and parents and uncle
The antagonist: friends
The foil: friends
The setting: home, in a diner, and lake
The plot str.: in a lake then friends go in lake then big prank the trying to catch shark then killed shark
The conflict: shark killing people
External
Character vs nature
The theme: sharks
The weather: sunny and cloudy
The moral: Pranks can be deadly and have consequences
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